Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is being let out of prison after serving less than half of his sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014. CNN values your feedback 1.

A judge sentenced Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder for killing Laquan McDonald, to more than six years behind bars on Friday. The sentence was a ...

Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer convicted of murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, was sentenced to 81 months, or 6 years and 9 months, in prison and two years mandatory supervised ...

"What Jason Van Dyke did in shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times, he deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison," Calloway said. "To me in my eyes, Jason Van Dyke is a racist murderer." ...

Jason Van Dyke is escorted into the courtroom at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Dec. 14, 2018. Van Dyke must now complete his term of mandatory supervised release, ...

Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Jan. 18, 2019, in Chicago. Antonio Perez/Getty Images, FILE.

Updated at 9:09 p.m. ET. Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was sentenced on Friday to six years and nine months in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald — an event that ...

Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke earned early release from prison. Activists now seek federal charges for violating McDonald's civil rights. He was 17 when he was killed in 2014.

Jason Van Dyke's lead defense attorney, Daniel Herbert, left, and prosecutor Jody Gleason, center, appear before the judge's bench during the sixth day of Jason Van Dyke's murder trial for the ...

The officer, Jason Van Dyke, became the city’s first patrolman in almost 50 years to be convicted of murder. The teenager, Laquan McDonald, became a national symbol of police brutality.

To say that the sentence handed down to former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was an insult would be putting it mildly. Van Dyke should have ...

Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer convicted of murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, was sentenced to 81 months, or 6 years and 9 months, in prison and two years mandatory supervised ...